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Canada and the United States

Anthony F. C. Wallace. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1999. Pp. ix, 394. $29.95.

Thomas Jefferson had a life-long fascination with American Indians. As a young man, he chatted with Cherokees who stopped at his father's farm en route to visit the governor in Williamsburg. During the Revolution, Governor Jefferson waged war with some Natives and smoked a peace pipe with others. In the 1780s, he began his "Indian Hall" at Monticello, stuffing it with everything from wampum beads and buffalo robes to bows and shields. A decade later, while secretary of state, he left the national capital in order to collect vocabularies from nearby Native bands. In 1806, still hard at work on Indian linguistics, President Jefferson spent so much time at one reception talking to an Indian delegation that the offended British ambassador stormed out. At the very end of his life, Jefferson was still poring over Indian grammars and preparing a gloss on the New Testament "for the use of the Indians" (p. 281). 1

This important dimension of Jefferson's life has largely escaped the attention of historians, even during the current boom in Jefferson studies. Now, at last, Anthony F. C. Wallace has placed Native Americans closer to center stage in Jefferson's story, offering a sweeping study of the man's encounters with Indians, his philosophical inquiries about Indians, and his policies toward Indians. . . .

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